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malaise

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Sun Aug 13, 2023, 08:19 PM Aug 2023

Jimmy Carter's grandson Hugo Wentzel gives health update on former president and first lady [View all]

https://ew.com/tv/jimmy-carter-health-update-grandson-hugo-claim-to-fame-exit-interview/
In another surprising turn on ABC reality competition Claim to Fame, Monday's episode saw the forced exit of Hugo after he incorrectly guessed Chris' famous relative as Elton John. The eliminated player revealed himself as Hugo Wentzel, the grandson of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and gave a moving speech about his grandfather.

Wentzel, the son of Amy Carter, spoke with EW following his elimination and shared health updates on his 98-year-old grandfather, who decided in February to receive home hospice care, as well as his grandmother, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, whose dementia diagnosis at 95 was announced in May.

"He always wants to be doing something with his mind, so he's trying to keep himself busy, but he is really sick and getting older," the 24-year-old tells EW of Carter, who served as president from January 1977 to January 1981.

Interview at link


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I am a fan of the show, "Claim to Fame" because of the guessing involved Eliot Rosewater Aug 2023 #1
lol malaise Aug 2023 #2
It's kind of hard to imagine Amy with an adult son. lpbk2713 Aug 2023 #3
I can recall when she went through a phase EYESORE 9001 Aug 2023 #4
I remember when the Carter family first went to the White House vlyons Aug 2023 #9
Reminds me that I am seriously old malaise Aug 2023 #14
I can relate. lpbk2713 Aug 2023 #15
Ain't that the truth... RocRizzo55 Aug 2023 #18
President Carter gave his famous "malaise" speech, summer of 1979 I think bucolic_frolic Aug 2023 #5
Jimmy Carter was way ahead of the pack malaise Aug 2023 #11
A quarter million posts and a mini auto-biography bucolic_frolic Aug 2023 #20
Not too old to bowl a verbal yorker at the slobfather central scrutinizer Aug 2023 #21
Bwaaaaaaaah!😀😀😀 malaise Aug 2023 #22
I hope they are in the same room. Botany Aug 2023 #6
Thanks for the update. EoM Scottie Mom Aug 2023 #7
I was originally against Carter because he was just another Christian phony. keithbvadu2 Aug 2023 #8
Me too. Delphinus Aug 2023 #12
Hugo said some lovely things PlutosHeart Aug 2023 #10
Comes from a thoughtful famiky malaise Aug 2023 #13
He's been in hospice care since February Polybius Aug 2023 #16
I wonder if he's hanging in there for Rosalynn, in a manner of speaking. ShazzieB Aug 2023 #17
K&R. William769 Aug 2023 #19
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